Frenchtranslationsplus

A native from Paris, France, where I got my Translation degree in English/French-Spanish from Paris III  Sorbonne Nouvelle University, I am also a Certified English teacher, I taught ESL in Paris for the French Department of Education for twelve years, &  hold a degree from the Sorbonne University to teach French as a foreign language. I taught French in the US giving private classes, then at Western Washington University. Earlier on in my translating career, after I moved here in the US, I qualified as a WA state DSHS Medical Interpreter, which brought me many medical translations and that’s how I initially developed my first specialty field as a translator. After many years of working with 3 specialties (Medical, environment, and International development), I decided to focus exclusively on the medical field, my main area of interest.                                                                                          

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION   

Medical:                                                                                                                                                      Medical devices, package inserts and labels, patient brochures, patient informed consent forms, clinical trials documentation, mental health evaluations, patient questionnaires, alternative medicines and therapies, holistic care, cognitive psychology, mind/body medicine, Multiple sclerosis.

Other working fields and formats:     

•  Birth certificates, diplomas, transcripts,
• Manuals & labels
• PowerPoint presentations
• Websites: I built this website on the WordPress platform and can do the same for you!                                                                                                          

Translating, editing, proofreading, subtitling, voice recording.

What I can do for your business:

– Provide you with professional, high quality translation of your content. Of course, you’d say. Well if you browse the internet every now and then, you’ll find legions of badly translated websites, that do more harm than good to the business they’re representing. The result can be hilarious at best, and in those cases the potential client will just walk away because the content doesn’t make sense.

– Help you increase your potential client base exponentially

– Help you gain more visibility and recognition worldwide

– Enhance your credibility

Why me?

– Besides being a professional translator, I’m a native speaker of French. In order to get high quality translations you need to hire a professional translator with all the education, qualifications, experience, and who translates into his/her native language.

– I have been a certified language teacher for many years, teaching English, then French, in France and in the U.S, I am therefore dedicated to providing high quality content.
No, any bilingual person cannot do a translator’s job. Professional translation requires education, training, experience, skills, and expertise that nothing replaces. What I provide is expertise, not only in my working languages, but in my specialty fields. (Please see the “About us” page for my specialty fields).

– Because I want to help you, that’s what service providers do. And because I’m extremely curious and I love what I do.

– One detail that matters to you: This is a one woman business, so you don’t have to go through loops to get in touch with me in case you have questions or if there is a problem. Have you ever experienced trying to get in touch on the phone with a service provider and being  told to call back later because the one you needed to talk to was “in a meeting”? No secretary, I personally respond to phone calls and emails. I don’t outsource my work, I am the one and only resource person, and I consider it paramount to be accountable and available.

– Last but not least, just like you, I constantly try to grow my business by expanding globally, so I do have first hand experience in expanding as a business.

Ethics & Principles

Quality: What I do when I accept an assignment is to put my expertise at your service, to provide you with a translation that will read as if it had originally been written in the target language, not only a good technical translation, but one preserving style, with the target audience in mind.

Confidentiality: All documents I handle are considered confidential.

Responsibility/ Accountability: In your interest, I do not accept assignments that are beyond my capacity, and I do not subcontract to other translators. Please remember that your translator may be working on several projects, and that quality translation requires time. However once your project accepted, you will receive your document on time, that is my commitment.

Finally, research is part of my job, but if you have any information likely to help me better meet your expectations, such as glossaries, previous translations of similar documents, specific guidelines, target audience, etc, they are welcome.

Streamlining translation specialties

As this pandemic has affected so many people and businesses, it is no surprise it also affected me as a freelance translator. It also gave me time to reflect on what I wanted to do about “my baby”, a.k.a., my business, I figured the best for me was for me to focus on the specialty that gives me the most work and in which I have acquired the best experience over the years, and had the most interest in, so I decided to keep Medical translations as my only specialty field.

– While I will still be handling general translations such as certificates (birth certificates for immigration and other official purposes), transcripts, labels, manuals, as well as proofreading and editing, Medical translation will remain my only specialty field.